skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course not. “Speeds are correct on non-highways” doesn’t match the level of pedestrian fatalities in the US. He might be 100% correct about the highway speed, though I doubt it, since most highways (interstate/limited access) seem to be 65 or 70, except in urban areas.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-tries-to-back-u...
Maybe one day it will happen, but right now LLM-generated persona would likely set off every alarm bell for a lot of people. LLMs have very recognizable style, and it usually falls right into the uncanny valley.
Worse or not depends on your threat model and trust in the participating servers. If you're talking about the protest, than you should not trust the government and big tech.
The same is not true for running shoes.
> Argument from authority is a logical fallacy.

Only when the authority isn't authoritative.

Authority is not inherently bad, and in some cases what an authority recommends is going to be significantly better than whatever conclusion an individual comes to via their 'enlightenment'.

Maybe you're smart and great at critical thinking and have a high level of self-confidence that you could investigate an issue and reach the right, or at least a good enough conclusion, but I don't think that's true for most people.
Oh, TIL then !
Because the Holocaust can refer to either the Nazi's genocide of Jews or all the genocides carried out by Nazi Germany. Most often it is the former.

So to reframe this, if you ask people how many people died in the Jewish genocide they'll probably give you the figure of how many Jews died, yes. They aren't ignoring all of the other victims, they're giving you the statistic of what they thought you asked for.

This is no different than separating out the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire and the genocide of Greeks by the same regime.
TIL; I didn't know the Manhattan project used GPUs in the first place.
I think Japan is not racist, but xenofobe (they dislike and avoid other cultures, not races) and Israel is very non-racist as they are are united by the religion regardless the race. Also racism is not particularly worse than other similar forms of prejudice - if you look at the German concentration camps, race was one of the factors but not the top.
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I was taught in high school that it was 6 million Jews.

Standard American public high school. Teacher was left-wing. We read Diary of Anne Frank, Night by Elie Weisel, Number the Stars, etc.

No holocaust denial going on.

Yes, the Soviets were excluded. So were the Prussians, who were the victims of both Nazi and Soviet genocides.

Nobody calls this holocaust denial.
Go wasn't properly behaved, the OpenBSD people actually fixed it so it works properly now. It's not broken.
RT, Sputnik and related Russian state media outlets are subject to sanctions in the EU, their broadcast licenses have been revoked and their channels have been removed from terrestrial, cable and satellite broadcasts. Their accounts on all major social media platforms are blocked. Their apps are no longer available on the Google or Apple stores. Europe doesn't have a Chinese-style Great Firewall, but EU countries have taken every reasonable step to prevent Russian state media from reaching EU audiences.

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-rt-sputnik-illegal-eu...

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2022/ofcom-revokes-rt-b...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/01/youtube...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-google-blocks-r...
Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data
I wouldn't say it's validating, just not necessarily invalidating.

Regardless, a news organizing funded by a monarchy not exactly known for its human and civilian rights mostly like has an agenda beyond "honest journalism".
I only have the energy to refute 2 points in the article breakdown:

1) (paraphasing) "why was it relevant to say he was wearing a helmet". To raise awareness that it's critical that cyclists wear helmets to increase their chances of survival.

2) "he was struck...use of passive voice , not the result of one or other party's action", maybe because that information isn't available yet? And part of journalistic integrity is to not report that which isn't proven.

It baffles me why cyclists expect to have any lower incident of traffic accidents than any other vehicle using common roadways.
It's a pity they don't give any details about the "attempted takeover" - are they available elsewhere?
I am curious how the bollards were deadly to the cyclists (I'm not saying I disagree, I just don't understand the mechanism). Maybe they were just going a lot faster than I'm thinking of?

The primary bike path that I use for commuting is the Hudson River Bike Path in Lower Manhattan, and there are bollards there at every intersection as a reaction to this terrorist attack: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/sayfullo-saipov-be-sent....

I sometimes find the bollards annoying, but I can't disagree with the city for placing them after that...
rt.com and their twitter are blocked.

How are you not aware of this? It's been a few years already.

The EU ruled on this.

https://paste.pics/4b60ebef97d3b7fbb6aba74637c2e818

https://paste.pics/0cb2ae98754165dad5cf086e75c4cc31
Can’t speak for the author, but IMO…

Everywhere a pedestrian might be? Probably not. But, we can do a MUCH better job building sidewalks and roads to increase safety. Lower speeds (not just posted limits, but road design). Raised sidewalks that are continuous, not the disjointed mess we have in much of the US.

At bus stops, schools, and any shopping area where cars are parked directly adjacent to eh store front? Yeah, bollards should be installed.
You should read and think about the HN guidelines, and whether your comments are motivated by curiousity and intellect, or base emotions and religious dogma.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Gotcha, thanks for this, I'll slow it down. Don't want to upset anyone, I've just made some big overhauls over the past few days and am excited to show it off.
AP: https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-hos...

CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/21/middleeast/cnn-investigat...

Economist: https://www.economist.com/interactive/the-economist-explains...

Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/18/al-ahli-arab-h...

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/video/video-analysis-shows-gaza-hospital...

Also worth reading this document straight from Hamas: https://twitter.com/cogatonline/status/1774437234579558643
The culture of class revenge/justice that fuels Marxism.

"The tradition of Marxist cultural analysis has also been referred to as "cultural Marxism", and "Marxist cultural theory", in reference to Marxist ideas about culture."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_cultural_analysis

It is >also< a name used by people who believe in a conspiracy theory about egalitarian politics.
I don't think my aversion is actually YAML. I have been playing around a lot with Benthos lately, and it is actually quite pleasant.
I think that browsers should show a little popup with the name of every emoji. It
would be the alt text. I'm old and don't know what many of the emoji mean. Names wouldn't help with slang usage (see eggplant) but they would with the confusing ones and flags.
Can you openly call for the murder of <enter ethnic group> in the US under the protection of the first amendment ?
That's quite a blunt viewpoint. Is it possible the situation is more nuanced?

To resort to official declarations of war or lack thereof, to hamstring the US response to widespread dissemination of Russian propaganda is plausible on the face of it.

But consider: the US is under no obligation to facilitate Russian propagandists. To deny them access is a matter for the State Department, as it's dealing with foreign nationals. It's quite routine to deny rights to non-American citizens.

Finally, a declaration of war with Russia could destabilize politics everywhere. Or even, destroy the world. It's disingenuous to ignore that and quibble over the rules, especially since those rules clearly don't apply to foreign governments trying to operate in the US.
Microsoft makes “good enough” products that integrate smoothly. That’s what enterprises want and smaller vendors can’t provide by their very nature.
Does "external influences" include the American Communist Party? How about the Chinese Communist Party?
Is there evidence that Americans of different ethnicities interpret user interface features differently?

If not, isn’t it concerning that in the year 2024 we casually assume that these sorts of differences exist? Isn’t that an example of DEI thinking accentuating the notion of differences? It seems like a new take on this: https://youtu.be/E8PBrhFN35c?si=90DSnwgHubAvJwr8
https://twitter.com/Rule3O3/status/1705282969584140749
On the relative scale of corporations in America, to me they are far and away the good guys.
Anyone know why the Russian Formalists got the sparkling repressive power of the state? I had thought they were expressly apolitical, but maybe Stalin was paranoid?
replace "two parent household" with "safe, stable, healthy home" I would also add healthcare.

this is a key point. in fact my own experience was that i didn't get a safe and stable home until my parents divorced, so it is not automatic that a two parent household would be better, but we grew up in a country where the social security provided adequate support for us to get that stable home.

myself living in a country now without that support, i would not be able to provide a stable home without a partner. if i were to loose my partner i would have to leave this place (but at least i would have the option to do that).

the locals here don't have that option. and since social security in the USA is lacking, the focus on a two parent families is easy to understand, because it is more likely to lead to more stability. but in the end, stability is what matters, not the number of parents,
Hopefully people can appreciate that a modern GPU is an achievement of physics and technology on par with the Manhattan project. EUV lithography is way off the end of the complexity scale. They had to make a bomb that was perfectly round, these days we have to make assemblies that are perfectly flat.
Where’s the proof to back your statement? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267725.
It's not an interview if a spokesman is allowed to say whatever they like without being challenged. It's not an interview if you broadcast a pre-recorded speech without comment. Ben Gvir is awful, but that doesn't change the fact that Al Jazeera's Arabic service is not impartial and is not acting as a legitimate journalistic outlet.
They were cente-trail (what would be the physical centerline, though there was no lane marking) about 5” in/back from the road surface. A car could get up onto the sidewalk that’s parallel to the road before striking the bollard. So, a cyclist would have to pass the bollards before stopping to check for traffic. I assume they clipped the bollard, lost control, and either ran into the road or something like that. This was 20 years ago now, so I don’t remember details.
Uhh no. Women are more likely having less children because economies are increasingly integrating them into the workforce and there isnt time or money for it.
> But Europe is not at war with Russia.

Not yet, they're not.
> $14 Chinese rubbish

Where do you think the "quality" devices are made?
I take your points, including #2. The thing is that if brushing your teeth means a world of pain then you do it out of obligation and it is not a happy experience.

However, if your teeth are good because there is no sucrose that ever goes anywhere near them in 'added form', then it becomes a pleasure to give them a quick polish.

My point still stands though, there is a lot of money made from tooth related FUD and sugary food. I just wished a dentist had spilled the beans to me many decades ago that it really is simple to have excellent oral hygiene just be avoiding the added sugars, and, to a lesser extent, the processed food.

Nowadays my teeth always feel good. I used to eat things like biscuits and crisps (chips) for my teeth to not feel great the next day, even if I had thoroughly brushed my teeth the night before. By every metric I just find the situation very different, the gums have definitely 'grown back' and I am sure some tartar is now below the gumline.

If eating a diet that is essentially whole food, plant based with no added sugars or processed foods, then that means no preservatives. Many common preservatives kill bacteria, or specific bacteria such as 'anything but yeast'. This makes sense for shelf life but I am not sure it helps with the gastrointestinal tract, which includes the mouth. There are good bacteria and then there is the one that lives off sucrose to make plaque. If you are eating standard issue bakery products then you are killing off the bad guys whilst giving the yeast=like strains that live off sucrose a free pass.

Incidentally, after I banished sugar from my home, I was reading the label of the toothpaste one day whilst brushing my teeth. And you will never guess what? Sugar. The cheek of it, putting sugar in toothpaste. That is perpetuating a problem that was being set out to be solved.

Generally though, the no sugar under any circumstances rule has raised my baseline oral hygiene to the best that it has ever been. I cut coffee and dairy too, so it is not difficult or a challenge to put in the effort to get them really nice for when I am meeting someone. However, I no longer feel obligated to brush them twice a day lest they feel like they are falling out or 'covered in fur' the next morning.

Regarding 'added sugars', what has to be understood is that every plant has sugar in it as does every animal. It is photosynthesis and glucose is the transport molecule for energy captured from the sun. It is not rocket science but I did not feel that any of this was explained to me very clearly at school or on any TV science program. But added sugars are the cuckoo in the nest of normal sugars, much like how chocolate Easter Eggs have very little to do eggs created by birds, lizards, amphibians and other animals. Yet some people conflate the two, particularly in online discussion.
The genocide in Gaza and the subsequent full colonization of the strip during the years to come will be the most shameful event of the twentieth first century. Denying the genocide is like denying the holocaust while it was happening.
Would you please link to examples the same news to Western audiences and to Middle Eastern ones? We can use Google translates by our selves.

Sorry, but I can't just take your words for it. It looks more like propaganda.

The more I read Al Jazeera, the more I respect their high journalism standards. I'm from a third world country and really envy the quality of the news.
45,000 flights a day and fewer than two reports of unknown sightings a month.

Commercial airline pilots truly are some of the most reliable among humans.
> at least german law says otherwise.

I'm pretty sure it's not what it says.

> i have never rented with an expectation to move out.

Wait, you always rent with the expectation to stay in that place forever, until you die, and never move? That's certainly an unusual way of doing things. In the US, average renal duration is just above 2 years, and I have heard about people moving many times, so certainly you must be aware even if you do not intend to ever move, other people do that?

> if the purpose of the property is to be rented out then what more control do you need

Why do you think you can determine the purpose of the property that does not belong to you, once and forever?

> why would you want to terminate a lease otherwise

Why it's any of your business?

> welcome to germany.

Thanks, I'll pass, for one more reason in the otherwise very, very long list of reasons.
I think he has an HN account.
> I don't like the idea that anyone disagreeing with any dei suggestion should be labeled as intentionally disruptive and bad faith.

My point isn't that anyone disagreeing with a particular suggestion is arguing in bad faith, it's that there are enough bad faith arguments that it becomes effectively impossible to have a productive discussion.

> Calling 80% of discussion here bad faith aimed at holding particular groups down is a big claim that shouldn't be thrown around lightly in a good faith post.

And therein lies the crux of the problem. Are 80% of the comments I see on DEI related threads actually acting in bad faith, or am I simply so exhausted by the constant stream of bad faith arguments that I lack the ability to discern between people acting in bad faith, uninformed people acting in good faith parroting bad-faith actors arguments, and people who are legitimately trying to engage. For that matter, am I an exhausted person who is simply tired of accusations of "wokeism" being thrown at me when I advocate for basic respect and decency, or am I a bad faith actor who tried to sneak an outrageous claim into a reasonable sounding post in order to undermine people who are in favor of DEI programs by making them all sound unreasonable? I may know that I'm simply exhausted, cynical, and seeing a steadily increasing amount of anti-DEI rhetoric here, but such is the state of discourse that there's no way for you to know for sure one way or another.
Well then, maybe we shouldn't use the technology.
The point here is people succumbing to confirmation bias and circular reasoning. That article is no simple 'clickbait'-nonsense.

Objectively, importance is judged via cumulative consequences over time. The event of contact with non-human higher intelligence can hardly be over-stated in that regard.

Being made fools of by your government to such a degree, you would risk missing a potentially world-changing event, is also quite something.
> Next, bigots get wind of the thing and start concern trolling and spreading FUD about it. Everything they say is carefully crafted with a veneer of respectability and plausibility. Any accusations are re-directed. There are people who are motivated and very skilled at making plausible sounding bad-faith arguments. The plausibility of course also convinces people might not intend to be making a bad faith argument, and so are authentic in their indignant responses to accusations of acting in bad faith.

How can you possibly have a good faith argument if you've already made your mind up that most or everyone who disagrees with you is arguing in bad faith? That in itself is not a good faith position.

You sound like you've basically constructed a closed system of thought for yourself, in which anyone who disagrees with you is arguing in bad faith.

I know one person here who frequently posts in disagreement to DEI initiatives is rayiner. He might be wrong, but I don't believe for a minute he is a bigot or acting in bad faith.
It’s also really hard to deploy 188B efficiently into anything else other than stock buybacks.
FCC Lets SpaceX Expand Testing of Cellular Starlink for Phones
> If your customer base has some attributes that aren't reflected in the staff, maybe hiring some will help you relate.

How does it work? If you hire them in customer research or marketing teams, yes, it brings value in understanding the customer. If you just hire them across all departments, like IT or facilities management, what do you get?
That’s.. not what zionism is and even if it was, genocide is not ever acceptable as a way toward that end.
I know that people in general seems to react strongly negative to government censorship, but I can not avoid seeing it through the light of recent trends of post-truth online censorships that blasted the internet during the last decade. Popularity of censorship is something that seems to go in wave, and outside the US there seems to be more acceptance to government censorship as comparative to platform censorship. In smaller countries the distinction becomes a bit blurry if it is the government doing the censorship, or the ISP's doing it voluntarily, or the dominant market platform making the same decision.

In my own industry I commonly hear people talk about self regulation in order to keep governments from interfering. This has benefits, but it also makes the action of the industry a dialog between government and private sector. Voluntarily removing undesired content is technically not censorship ordered by the government, but it is also not completely separated from the wishes of the government.
The easy way is with a resistive space heater and a multimeter. I keep a big, dumb, thrifted "oil-filled radiator" space heater around just to use as a big, safe 3-speed dummy load with reasonably OK repeatability (nichrome heaters do not have perfect temperature coefficients, but they're stable-enough that using them to measure temperature quickly begins to be a non-starter).

The level of integration you choose is entirely up to you. I don't do this kind of thing much, so I'm OK with kludging together a test rig as-needed with a handheld meter and tearing it apart when I'm done. This makes good use of my own time and tools, according to my personal proclivities.

But if I were doing it often, then I might buy the equivalent of the HOPI meter that Big Clive uses in many of his videos. It displays current and voltage, multiplies them to get power, and also displays power factor -- concurrently, on separate digital displays, in real time.

Or I might build something: A box with a current shunt with some panel-mount meters and appropriate connectors would not be too challenging to put together in an afternoon with parts from Amazon and Lowes, depending on one's ability and desire to deal with sheet metal at home. (I use galvanized steel handy boxes and cover plates from Lowes for all kinds of small-ish stuff. They're cheap, common, and durable-enough.)

Whatever the approach, a simple space heater with multiple literal-speeds seems like a cheap and useful way to make it happen unless you're trying to automate every part of it.

(But by then, making a dumb multi-speed space heater into a "smart" multi-speed space heater that can be activated programmatically with software like ESPHome and some relays is probably pretty much a no-brainer, isn't it?)
I still have my Lumia 450. It looks as great today as it did 10 years ago. Windows phone is probably the only UI/UX Microsoft got right. Sadly, leave it to Microsoft to ruin a product by pulling the plug.
>which Arab countries banned it and when?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1980191.stm

https://english.alarabiya.net/media/digital/2017/05/24/Websi...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/28/al-jazeera-ban...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-censorship-idUSKBN1...
Discussion [0] (117 points, 15 hours ago, 131 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262883
Yep https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alankay
Some exceptions like Windows, Office and Xbox?
Except it should not be divisive - as the topic of a nation state’s actions toward their stated goal of genocide (I’m sorry, “mowing the lawn”) should turn everyone against said nation state. Instantly.
Just anecdotally, I’ve experienced the same. The speed of traffic on highways is regularly 5-25 mph above the limit, and this mindset does translate to other types of road.
This discussion applies to every Opinion section piece.

* No, it doesn't necessarily represent the view of the editorial board. That why 'Opinion' has its own special section.

* Yes, they did find it at least noteworthy enough to publish.
I’m pretty sure that’s more normal than not for news orgs that have a home country or region but also compete on the global market. Some have several versions, not just two.
So, the point is it's ok for one side to want to continue the contract forever, or to exit it anytime they want, for any reason they want - but it's not ok for the other side to have the same freedom? Why is that?